The most spoken languages worldwide

The most spoken languages worldwide (native speakers in millions)

The data displays the most spoken languages worldwide. There were nearly 1.3 billion native Chinese speakers a the time of survey.

Spoken languages in the U.S. The United States does not have an official language, but they use English, specifically American English, for legislation, regulation and other official pronouncements. America is a land of immigrations and the languages spoken in the U.S. vary as a result of the multi-cultural population. The second most common language spoken in the U.S. is Spanish or Spanish Creole, over 34,559,894 people spoke Spanish at home in 2008.

Chinese 1299
Spanish 442
English 378
Arabic 315
Hindi 260
Bengali 243
Portuguese 223
Russian 154
Japanese 128
Lahnda 119